Nilus (spider) explained

Nilus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.^[1]

Species

it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and India:^[2]

• Nilus albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines
• Nilus curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Africa
• Nilus decorata (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
• Nilus esimoni (Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar
• Nilus jayakari (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman
• Nilus kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Nilus leoninus (Strand, 1916) – Madagascar
• Nilus majungensis (Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar
• Nilus margaritatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa
• Nilus massajae (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa
• Nilus paralbocinctus (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos
• Nilus phipsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia
• Nilus pictus (Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa
• Nilus pseudoalbocinctus (Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India
• Nilus pseudojuvenilis (Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique
• Nilus radiatolineatus (Strand, 1906) – Africa
• Nilus rossi (Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa
• Nilus rubromaculatus (Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

Notes and References

1. Pickard-Cambridge. O.. 1876. Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 541–630. 44. 3. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02595.x. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.
2. Gen. Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.